"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
Happily, but Canterbury is a location just as Bayeux is.
Erm…, Canterbury Embroidery. 😏
Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
A tragedy.
“Hanging on to President Trump’s latest words is not the special relationship” …a useful message there from Starmer for the BBC’s hyperbolic political reporting as well as for Badenoch.
There's been a huge failure in our education system if this many people believe that only white people can be British. It's the bigotry of the worst form.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn
Don't let Reform's toxic language gaslight you, the truth is in the numbers.
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OTD in 1970, the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in Oxford. A watershed in the British feminist movement, attendees discussed equal pay, 24-hour childcare and free contraception.
In this piece from the archive, Chandan Fraser shares her memories of the event.
I drove past it. It seemed to me to be a reform van that was doing a montage of various clips. It had favourable footage of 20p Lee. Labour and greens had people with placards all over. Not a single person holding a reform placard. Clearly theyre having to fake ground support
Things you don’t see in the english ‘free’ press/media.
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Shades of Watney’s Red Barrel 🛢️of my youth. Mind you, that was beaten off eventually. 🍺 🍻
Shades of Watney’s red barrel 🛢️of my youth. Mind you, that assault on Real Ale was beaten-off eventually. 🍺🍻
Seen in The Guardian: Sharp’s Brewery, makers of Doom Bar, a highly successful session bitter, is being closed down by its US owner, Molson Coors. 🤬
Nothing to see here; move on.
How America has been made great again. National shame.
Labour MP Richard Burgon, "As a society its time for a serious discussion about cancelling student debt"
"Instead we should fund higher education through progressive taxation"
Etsi ketsi… 👋
Greece, soon to be let go…
It’s well known that Napoleon’s soldiers marched on their stomachs, less so that each one carried a grab-bag in their rucksacks.
BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms
JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
We are hiring ....
Because John Nightingale is retiring...
for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Thousands of you have already told your MPs that it's time for a Royal Epstein Inquiry. We can't let off now. Email your MP, link below. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein
Knuckleheaded economics.
😱 Known in our Mediterranean household as ‘an astrological gentleman’ fond of the bathroom. 🦂
In case you were wondering, this is actually what Communist totalitarianism looked like in practice. Education by the fiat of the ruling party. History only as told by the politicians. Certain questions and topics cannot he discussed.
But yeah, let's make sure the Neo Nazis get freedom of speech.
